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by kaveet 1090 days ago
Any interest in working together on a new extension?
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What would be the possible solution ? Change size ? High contrast fg/Bg combinations ? Special UTF characters?
A different spectrum per type of colorblindness. It should work fine, unless you're completely blind to all colors, which is a very small proportion of colorblindness, most are only lacking perception of one out of three colors.
You can already do that: in the settings.json under workbench.colorCusomizations, change editorBracketHighlight.foregroundX where X is the level of bracketing you want to modify.

In practice, though, the reduced color vision combined with the small target that is a bracket (color vision degrades for smaller objects), means that this is of limited usefulness.

Mathematic notation uses subtle tweaks/additive glyphs to the same characters all the time.
Subtle distinctions in font weight or italic-ness? Variable fonts give a lot of options.
See XKCD: "How standards proliferate".
No, that's not relevant and I think you know it, funny man